Quotes About Community

My father is a doctor and my mother ran the local pharmacy. Growing up, I saw firsthand the difference they made to our community.

Where I'm from, Bastrop, Louisiana, you played football, basketball, and baseball; you ran track - and that was about it.

When I first ran for mayor in 2005, I made a pledge to confront the epidemic of gun violence in Braddock.

My father ran a grocery store.

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to come.

I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.

My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference.

I ran for Congress in 1992, but I lost the election, and I really dropped the idea of ever serving in Congress. Eventually, I went home and became the mayor of my city, West Palm Beach. I was mayor for eight years.

I served on a lot of the local boards in my local community, and then I ran for the state legislature in '98 and ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006. I mean, it was just kind of one thing after another. A series of really bad decisions.

My first attempt at a business was a jumble sale which I ran at the end of my next door neighbour's drive. I used to rummage through her garage, looking for anything that I thought people might buy. I'd then set up a table and try to sell what I could to the people walking by.

I ran on fixing the roads... I ran on cleaning up drinking water.

Yeah, I would go to New England Conservatory a lot. My orchestra teacher ran a program for minority students there.

The reason I first ran for the state legislature didn't start in a courtroom or in a lobbying firm or anywhere near Richmond, to be honest. It started in a little town on the Eastern Shore where I grew up on my family's farm and spent a lot of time fishing and working on the Chesapeake Bay.

It's not just Porter Ranch. There's communities like Chatsworth. There's communities like Northridge. There's communities like Granada Hills - and a lot of them are writing to me.

Missouri farm and ranch families are the backbone of this state.

We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.

I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.

The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.

How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.

Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.